Heroes in Black and White

Things that I like and whatnot

[designismymuse]

Eames Case Study House #8 

Architects- Charles & Ray Eames Location- Pacific Palisades, California  Completion- 1949 Source & Images- sincretix.com Virtual Tour- http://bit.ly/1UW8gy6

Charles & Ray Eames are massive inspirations of mine, both in their aesthetic contributions to design & architecture but also as a reminder of how fulfilling work/ life can be. Their personal residence, Case Study House #8, is a midcentury modern marvel- it takes advantage of site & innovative materials. The interior is a reminder of how a house can inform our personal life details & explorations. It truly is a gem of midcentury modern architecture. 

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[archatlas]

White Walls Jean Nouvel + Takis Sophocleous Architects

From the architect:

On the south façade a vertical landscape covers approximately 80% of the building’s façade area. This exceptional living environment is working like a natural “brise soleil”. The plants will act as a natural sun control shielding the apartments and the offices from direct sun during summer while admitting a maximum of sunlight in winter. This “living “façade” supports a variety of Cypriote climbing and spreading plants and will be continually transformed by the cyclic movements of the different seasons. 400 years old olive trees continue this vertical landscape on the perimeter of the building. It creates the link to the adjacent urban park and gets a part of the scenery of the city.

Images and text via Jean Nouvel

[bahliss]

[adoredvintage-blog]

If happiness were a dress, I’m pretty sure this would be it! I just can’t stop smiling looking at it!

[vinstage]

[marci1900]

[urbnite]

[marci1900]

[imthecatlady]

rooftop stargazing richmond, va

[workaholics]

Don’t sleep on the Season sex 6 Premiere, this Thursday at 10/9c.

[y3]

Kendrick Lamar

[newblogisjacindaelena]

 by janis roseanne

[poop-there-it-is]

person: why are you dressed so nice today?

me: i am distressed by the fact my mind and soul inhabit a physical body. i accessorize, clothe and ornament this fleshy encasement in an attempt to cope with my visceral despair in reaction to inescapable confinement in a corporal form

[just-shower-thoughts]

In the future will people look at our religions like how we look at the Greek gods?

[gay-danny-phantom]

I already do that

[bunlly]

[accidentalambience]

Fast food workers in NY just won a $15/hr wage. I’m a paramedic. My job requires a broad set of skills: interpersonal, medical, and technical skills, as well as the crucial skill of performing under pressure. I often make decisions on my own, in seconds, under chaotic circumstances, that impact people’s health and lives. I make $15/hr. And these burger flippers think they deserve as much as me? Good for them. Look, if any job is going to take up someone’s life, it deserves a living wage. If a job exists and you have to hire someone to do it, they deserve a living wage. End of story. There’s a lot of talk going around my workplace along the lines of, “These guys with no education and no skills think they deserve as much as us? Fuck those guys.” And elsewhere on FB: “I’m a licensed electrician, I make $13/hr, fuck these burger flippers.” And that’s exactly what the bosses want! They want us fighting over who has the bigger pile of crumbs so we don’t realize they made off with almost the whole damn cake. Why are you angry about fast food workers making two bucks more an hour when your CEO makes four hundred TIMES what you do? It’s in the bosses’ interests to keep your anger directed downward, at the poor people who are just trying to get by, like you, rather than at the rich assholes who consume almost everything we produce and give next to nothing for it. My company, as they’re so fond of telling us in boosterist emails, cleared 1.3 billion dollars last year. They expect guys supporting families on 26-27k/year to applaud that. And that’s to say nothing of the techs and janitors and cashiers and bed pushers who make even less than us, but are as absolutely crucial to making a hospital work as the fucking CEO or the neurosurgeons. Can they pay us more? Absolutely. But why would they? No one’s making them. The workers in NY *made* them. They fought for and won a living wage. So how incredibly petty and counterproductive is it to fuss that their pile of crumbs is bigger than ours? Put that energy elsewhere. Organize. Fight. Win.

Jens Rushing  (via albinwonderland)

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